Comments on: Hillary Clinton's Run For The White House

Talks To 60 Minutes About Her Bid For The Democratic Presidential Nomination

[banats]

I think that Katie and Steve should interview Obama and Hillary again using the same questions, with appropriate variations. However, this time Steve should interview Hillary and Katie should interview Obama. Obama might better understand what it feels like to be insulted and humiliated on national TV and Hillary might better understand what it is like to be respected on national TV.

[jagababian]

I am disappointed at 60 minutes interviews with Obama and Clinton. Did we need to have the "boys" and the "girls" talk with one another - is that sexist or what? And then we ask a very bright women, who has survied the most vicious attacks both as a first lady, a senator and as a candidate for the presidency -about her stamina?? And when she replys, we ask her again?? What wasted opportunity to ask questions about real issues. I am not a rabid feminist, but I am insulted that "the women" running for president does not get the same respect from the media that the men do - O I forgot, you are all men with a few token women in the ranks ----

[susanwking]

All the blame cannot be given to Katie - you really think Sen. Clinton had no idea of how the interview would go? She calmly volunteered info. in the same vein as the questions rather than turning to issues. There are many many who bear responsibility for this ridiculous waste.

[rwhitco727]

KATIE....YOU CALL THAT AN INTERVIEW ? WHAT A DISGRACE ! TOTALLY UNPROFESSIONAL, SEXIST AND HUMILIATING. IS IT REALLY THAT IMPORTANT THAT WE KNOW WHAT SENATOR CLINTON''S NICKNAME IN HIGH SCHOOL WAS ? PLEASE, 60 MINUTES, I KNOW YOU CAN DO BETTER THEN THAT WHEN INTERVIEWING A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE...LIKE STEVE CROFT''S INTERVIEW WITH OBAMA. WHY DIDN''T STEVE DO BOTH INTERVIEWS ? MAYBE WE WOULD HAVE LEARNED SOMETHING MORE IMPORTANT TO THE AMERICAN VOTERS RATHER THAN THE RIDICULOUS AND IMMATURE QUESTIONS THAT KATIE ASKED. BY THE WAY KATIE, HOW IS YOUR STAMINA ????

[zavatchen]

Virginia Novemeber November 15, 1917.
The women were innocent and defenseless. And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden''s blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of "obstructing sidewalk traffic."

They beat Lucy Burn, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and
left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air. They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed andknocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.

Thus unfolded the "Night of Terror" on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson''s White House for the right to vote.

For weeks, the women''s only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of
it colorless slop--was infested with worms. When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.

[smashwl7]

Which one fits this best Hillary, Obama or McCain

Leadership (according to John Sculley) revolves around vision, ideas, direction, and has more to do with inspiring people as to direction and goals than with day-to-day implementation. A leader must be able to leverage more than his own capabilities. He must be capable of inspiring other people to do things without actually sitting on top of them with a checklist.%u201D Bennis, W. %u2018On Becoming a Leader%u2019 Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing, (1989, p.139)

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other." John F. Kennedy

[rachelb261]

This interview was appalling - sexist - and never should have been aired. Katie Uric should be embarassed and fired. She has the honor of interviewing a US Senator - and maybe the next president - and she is asking about stamina? And referring to her old high school nicknames? What about the important questions - the ones that matter? This was the worst interview that I have ever heard and I will never watch another story with katie interviewing again. Get another job Katie because you are not smart enough for this one.

[sleitz]

Katie Couric was negative and unpleasant to watch. Her questions to Hillary were an embarrasment to me, 60 minutes and to Hillary. Katie is an amateur that isn''t professional enough to be on a show like 60 minutes. How could she waste such an important interview like that? What an insult to the American public.

[alice813]

Hillary did a great job when interviewed by Nasty Katie. Hillary is ready to be President - anyone that can take that kind of abuse and still be cool, is A-OK!!
CBS - please don''t submit anyone else to Couric''s nastiness. I can''t stand Couric and that''s why we watch Charles Gibson - a really nice man!

[taina08]

I was disappointed! Steve Croft, in his interview with Mr. Obama, asked questions that focused on issues and Mr. Obama''s approach to running for president. Katie Couric, however, was determined to portray Senator Clinton as a loser. Ms Couric focused on how Senator Clinton was feeling, her high school nickname, her stamina, and other irrelevant topics. I will continue to support Senator Clinton. She is a strong, determined, experienced, and intelligent, and honest. It''s time!!!

[rachelb261]

This interview was appalling - sexist - and never should have been aired. Katie Uric should be embarassed and fired. She has the honor of interviewing a US Senator - and maybe the next president - and she is asking about stamina? And referring to her old high school nicknames? What about the important questions - the ones that matter? This was the worst interview that I have ever heard and I will never watch another story with katie interviewing again. Get another job Katie because you are not smart enough for this one.

[rachelb261]

This interview was appalling - sexist - and never should have been aired. Katie Uric should be embarassed and fired. She has the honor of interviewing a US Senator - and maybe the next president - and she is asking about stamina? And referring to her old high school nicknames? What about the important questions - the ones that matter? This was the worst interview that I have ever heard and I will never watch another story with katie interviewing again. Get another job Katie because you are not smart enough for this one.

[ronsherwin]

Katie Couric''s questions and comments to Senator Clinton smacked of a gossip magazine, or of talk heard at a junior high school slumber party.

Pressing the Senator about her stamina to run for office, or the question about Senator Clinton''s high school nickname, "Miss Frigidaire," showed disrespect, and immaturity, which hardly reflected the seriousness of a presidential campaign.

I was surprised, and disappointed, that the Senator played along with Ms. Couric. On the other hand, Steve Kroft''s interview with Senator Obama was the polar opposite; serious and respectful, as it should have been.

[chuckac23]

I am afraid i will have to agree with remmy23, there are a lot of word you do not dare use when interviewing barak or you might lose your job. you do not dare say "HEY BOY" although you can call Hillary "HEY GIRL" or a few other names she has been called and nothing happens, what has this world come to have we forgotten who wrote the contistune of the united states white men. i think katy did a pretty good job at least she did not call names. all i have to say is GO HILLARY

[jon2012-2009]

Our nation''''s youth is smarter than you Hillary can imagine!
Posted by user168 at 02:56 AM : Feb 12, 2008

I am also much heartened by the engagement of the youth during this election. But filling arenas to hear Obama smacks of rock concerts and Campus Crusade for Christ, falling for the entertainment value or the message. You are making a decision of great momentous significance for the country and not just for yourself. Don''t blow it.

[deminfw]

I was appalled at Katie Couric''s interview. Instead of focusing on the issues which so many of us wanted to hear, she asked sexist comments about Senator Clinton''s stamina on the campaign trail. To me, this smacked of sexism and ageism. Steve Kroft did not ask Obama how he managed the grueling schedule, but only focused on the issues. As an undecided voter, I looked forward to the interview to help me make a decision. As it is, I''m still baffled, but I do know that Senator Clinton eats a lot of peppers--that must account for something!

[barb223]

It is insulting the way the media are treating Obama like the second coming of Christ and are constantly vilifying Ms. Clinton. Ms. Clinton is the only one with the intelligence and vision to lead this nation. Obama does not have the experience and in fact, is putting forth ideas that Ms. Clinton espoused first as his own. Putting a three-year Senator in charge of a 360 million population nation is like making me CEO of Microsoft simply because I have been using a computer for 20 years! Let the press start scrutinizing Obama the way they do Clinton. Then again, since when does fairness and the press go hand in hand?

[remmy21]

this is an excerpt and not is the order Ms Morgan wrote this but it clearly addresses todays sexes remarks and attitudes.

by Robin Morgan
"Goodbye To All That" was my 1970 essay breaking free from a politics of
accommodation especially affecting women."
"During my decades in civil-rights, anti-war, and contemporary women''s
movements, I''ve avoided writing another specific "Goodbye . . ." But not
since the suffrage struggle have two communities--the joint
conscience-keepers of this country--been so set in competition, as the
contest between Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) and Barack Obama (BO) unfurls.
So.
Goodbye to the double standard . . .
Hillary is too ballsy but too womanly, a Snow Maiden who''s emotional, and
so much a politician as to be unfit for politics.
She''s "ambitious" but he shows "fire in the belly." (Ever had labor pains?)
--When a sexist idiot screamed "Iron my shirt!" at HRC, it was considered
amusing; if a racist idiot shouted "Shine my shoes!" at BO, it would''ve
inspired hours of airtime and pages of newsprint analyzing our national
dishonor.

[remmy21]

Ms Couric
Your interview was one of the most discounting interview of anyone I have yet to see.

How would you have liked to be interviewed as you did Sen. Clinton.

You would not have asked the questioned of a man you asked Hillary. You acted sexes and degrading.

I have told everyone to have spoke to what a horrible job you did with the interview.

I will not watch you again. You are not a professional journalist.

[voter1111]

Truely, Katie sounds like a snipey little sorority girl who shouldn''t be allowed to interview anybody important. I hope CBS in embarrassed!!